emaciate
emaciate 英 [ɪ'meɪʃɪeɪt] 美 [ɪˈmeʃiˌet]
vt. 使消瘦；使衰弱；使贫瘠 vi. 消瘦下去
进行时:emaciating 过去式:emaciated 过去分词:emaciated 第三人称单数:emaciates 名词复数:emaciates
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- vt. 使消瘦；使衰弱；使贫瘠
- vi. 消瘦下去
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1. To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate.
使消瘦通常通过饥饿使变瘦；使消瘦。
- emaciate (v.) 1620s "cause to lose flesh" (implied in emaciating), from Latin emaciatus, past participle of emaciare "make lean, cause to waste away," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + macies "leanness," from macer "thin" (from PIE root *mak- "long, thin"). Intransitive meaning "become lean, waste away" is from 1640s. Related: Emaciated.
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